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County Tipperary, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Holy Cross
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
Note: Roman Catholic parish records for those parishes that belong to the Diocese of Cashel and Emly are not available to the public
HORE
ABBEY, a parish, in the barony of MIDDLETHIRD, county of TIPPERARY,
and province of MUNSTER, adjoining the city of Cashel,
and containing 451 inhabitants.
This
parish is chiefly distinguished as the site of a monastery, founded near the
cathedral, and called Hore Abbey and also the Abbey of St. Mary
of the Rock of Cashel. It was originally of the Benedictine order, but,
in 1269, or 1272, the Archbishop David McCarvill, having dreamed that
the monks made an attempt on his life, violently dispossessed them of their
house and lands, which he gave to a body of Cistertian monks from the abbey
of Mellifont in the county of Louth, and at the same time took
on him the habit of that order. It subsisted till the dissolution, when Patrick
Stackboll, the last abbot, surrendered it with all its possessions, which,
in 1561, were granted by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Henry Radcliffe, Knt;
it was afterwards granted to James Butler, and in the 42nd of the same
reign was granted to Thomas Sinclair, at the annual rent of 2s.; it
is now, with the greater part of the parish, the property of the Earl of
Mount-Cashel. The parish comprises 1519 statute acres; the land is of
good quality, and the system of agriculture improved.
The
living is a rectory, in the diocese of Cashel,
and in the patronage of the Archbishop: the tithes amount to £166 3s.1d.
There is neither church, glebe-house, nor glebe.
In
the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district
of Cashel.
There
is a private school, in which about 70 children are taught.
There
are considerable remains of the abbey church, most of which is entire, they
consist of the nave, choir, and central tower, the last supported on two lofty
arches; the nave is separated from the aisles by a series of three pointed
arches, of which that on the north side has been levelled; the choir has an
east window of small size and plain design, and in the side walls are some
stalls; a small low arched apartment, with niches in the walls, appears to
have been a confessional; the vaulting of the tower is richly groined, and
many of the details are of elegant character.
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